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Infrared film underfloor heating

 

Infrared film underfloor heatingAppearance infrared film underfloor heating in the market of services - a clear example of how innovative technologies are boldly entering our lives, helping to create coziness and comfort in the house easily and quickly.

The fundamental difference and the main advantage of the infrared floor from other floors is the use of infrared radiation. This long-wave radiation does not heat the air, but directly the objects in the room.

An ordinary warm floor, heating the air, creates convection currents in it, which rise up. As a result, you spend energy on creating a warm layer of air under the ceiling, and not in the part of the room where you are.

The infrared floor warms the entire room evenly. Moreover, infrared rays they do not dry air, do not create dust circulation in a confined space (which is especially important for allergies and respiratory diseases) and emit a large number of negative ions. All this greatly improves the indoor microclimate.

Infrared film underfloor heatingWhat is an infrared film warm floor? This is an ultra-thin (only 0.4 mm), flexible material consisting of two layers of a polymer film, between which heating elements are hermetically sealed - parallel graphite strips with special additives, connected to silver-plated copper tires.

Film underfloor heating can be installed not only under light flooring, such as linoleum, carpet and laminate, but also under such materials as ceramic tiles or porcelain tiles.

Installation of a film floor does not require such a time-consuming and dirty process as a screed. It is easy to carry out the installation of the infrared film floor on your own, and in a short time. You do not need special tools and skills, just read the instructions carefully.

The only thing you should remember is that according to current regulations, only a qualified electrician can connect a warm floor. Connection is made to a simple power supply network with a voltage of 220 V. You can correct the heating temperature with the help of a temperature regulator.


Where and for what is infrared film underfloor heating used?


Thermal film - environmentally friendly material that does not emit toxic fumes, is absolutely safe to use.

Infrared film underfloor heatingFilm floor does not create electromagnetic radiation, slightly ionizes and refreshes the air. All this allows the use of such floors for premises of any purpose: houses, apartments, cottages, kindergartens, medical institutions. Due to its flexibility, small thickness and ease of installation, thermal film can be used for heating vertical and horizontal surfaces - walls, ceilings.

Infrared underfloor heating can serve not only for additional heating, but also completely replace traditional heating sources. In this case, the area of ​​the infrared film should be at least 70% of the floor area of ​​the heated room.

Since the film floor consists of a large number of parallel electrically conductive elements, it cannot burn out all at once. If one of the plates fails, its functions will be evenly distributed to the others and the heating temperature will not change.

The infrared floor can not be mounted under furniture on low legs - sofas, cabinets, chests of drawers. In this case, local overheating will occur, and individual elements may fail.

Although infrared-heated film floors are a fairly young category of underfloor heating, they have already won the undisputed leadership due to their high energy efficiency and great economy.

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    # 1 wrote: | [quote]

     
     

    Read about infrared heating - the “warm floor” system mounted under the floor covering cannot heat the room DIRECTLY THROUGH the floor covering. All infrared radiation is absorbed by solids, therefore it will go into the floor covering.

    Regarding ionization, even writing laziness - anyone interested read at least Wikipedia.

    And so it is possible to “comment” on each proposal.

    The article is designed for stupid uneducated people indifferent to their health / comfort / safety.

     
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    # 2 wrote: Vitaly Zhukov | [quote]

     
     

    An infrared film uses the same long-wave infrared radiation that comes from the sun. The film is very versatile: it can be used for underfloor heating, can be fixed on any horizontal and vertical surfaces: on the walls, ceiling, on the floor. With such a film, you can not conduct a piping system in the house and not be afraid of defrosting batteries and pipes.

    The infrared heating system is very economical: it is not the air around the heater that heats up, but objects in the room. It is enough to hang such a film over the bed from the ceiling - and the bed will quickly heat up. For comparison: oil radiators will heat the room much worse, only in one place, and the smell of burnt oil will appear. Then the stoves are placed as low as possible to the floor to warm the entire room.

    An infrared film can be placed anywhere: it heats even distant objects. It takes 8 to 60 watts of electricity to heat a room. The built-in thermostat can lower the temperature in the room when there are no people for a long time. And when people appear, create a comfortable temperature in 10 minutes. It is reliable, comfortable, convenient to install and use, and safe. The service life of the film is at least 30 years. You can dry anything with such a film: boards, dry the basement, heat the garage, the greenhouse during frosts. It does not burn oxygen and does not emit harmful electromagnetic waves.

     
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    # 3 wrote: | [quote]

     
     

    An advertising article designed to impress with an abundance of scientific words. Tiled infrared? Easy ionization?

    The film itself has a number of significant drawbacks, the main of which is clearly an ill-conceived terminal for connecting power. And not a collapsible floor, such as tiled, with such a film generally a complete roulette. As a result - an ordinary flat heating element, afraid of mechanical damage.